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Dindigul Campus Connect

Training programme

A field day cum training programme was conducted at Horticultural College and Research Institute, Periyakulam, in collaboration with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA to improve vegetable production, particularly tomato, in Tamil Nadu. Farmers from Theni district and seven other districts in the State took part. Project investigators L. Srimathi Priya highlighted the importance of the unique scheme, ‘BMGF-Biostimulants Efficacy Testing Structure, and’ S.Rajesh on its benefits. J. Rajangam, Dean, in his address, said that commercial cultivation of tomato has been taken up on 41,455 hectares in the State with an annual production of 8.15 lakh tonnes. To increase the production, intensive cultivation techniques are needed.

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